The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-08
RAILWAY RACKET.
Budget of Local Information
for the Especial Benefit of
Railway Men.


manager of the Missouri Pacific, has
gone to Chicago.
Frank AlcOrn, an old railroad
5oy, nov Of Omaha. Neb., is the CITY
visiting his father-in-law, j. Rhodes.
The Adam. express company is
to take the place OF Lie Bal imore d
Obi express company Oh the 0. d NJ.
railroads.
Manager Talmage and the pur-
chasing committee of the Wabash are
inspecting the western branches of
the road.
When the Santa Fe is built from
Kansas City to Chicago, it will be
thirty-eight miles shorter than any
other route between the two cities.
The mail on all railroads will be
weighed during next month. Mail
weighing is soft job, although it
lasts only about six weeks. The sal
airy is $3.50 per day.
The Metropolitan railway (un-
ground of London carried eight and
a half millions of passengers last year
and the receipts were more than 3d.
100000.
Geo. Neeley, an old South End
passenger engineer, returned yester-
day morning from Lamar, Dent
county, Colorado, where he has been
for some time past investing extern
sively in real estate.
The meetings announced to be
held at Pittsburg on March 2 and 3
to consider the interstate commerce
law have been ordered cancelled by
the chairman of the middle and west
ern states association.
"A. w. Dickinson, superintendent
of Terminal Facilities, announces that
r. ID. Weleh has been appointed
superintendent of telegraph of the
Union Depot company and St. Louis
Bridge and Tunnel road, vice H, c,
Mahoney, resigned.
An Atchison item says The
Chicago, Kansas IL Nebraska railroad
to-day let the contract to Grace d
Griffith, of Chicago, for the construc-
ton of the shops of their company at
the new town of Horton, in Brown
county. The total cost will be $780,
600.
The bond proposition in Atchi-
son county yesterday in aid of the
Leavenworth, Northern d Southern,
the Chicago, Kansas Il Nebraska and
the Atchison d Southwestern carried
by majority of about 800. In the
city of Atchison the majorities were
about /, 800.
Ernest Small, North End
brakeman, met with a very painful,
but not serious accident yesterday at
Moberly, while making a coupling,
His hand was caught, resulting in a
flesh wound. He was brought to the
hospital where his hand was dressed.
He will be idle but short time.
ID. b. Martin has assumed his
duties as general passenger and ticket
agent of the Bee Line at Cleveland,
and w. j. Nichols, the new general
western agent at St. Louis. has arrived
and taken charge of the Office here.
Mr.. Nichols is not stranger in st.
Louis, having represented the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas at this point
some eight years ago.
w. G.. Burrus, station agent for
the Missouri Pacific railway at Wind
sor, Mo-, and Miss Jennie b. Haynes
were married Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Haynes, of Nevada. Rev. r. r.
Ward, of Harrisonville, performed
the ceremony. The bridal couple
left on the evening train for St.
Louis.
There will be free excursion to
Kiowa, Kas., leaving points in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, March 10. The
excursion will be via the Alton and
Southern Kansas. Kiowa is situated
about the center, east to west, On the |
southern border of Kansas, is two
years old, and already has a popula-
ton of 1000, with two railroads and
five more building there; has water
works and has bright promise of the
future.
The Chicago, Milwaukee d st.
Paul railroad has already equipped
two passenger trains with apparatus
for steam heating from the locomo-
tives, and the system has stood every
test to which it has been subjected. |
If it proves a success in the coolest |
weather little fault can be found with |
it. The same company is trying other |
experiments looking to the abolition |